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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:52:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
To:        eistal@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Could you help me ?
Message-ID:  <199710200752.JAA26607@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <344A94A8.10DE38A9@cyf-kr.edu.pl> from Janusz Stal at "Oct 20, 97 00:15:53 am"

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> I have FreeBSD 2.1 Release.
> A few months ago I deleted 20 users. Sometimes (once a week) I get 20
> mail letters
> like this:
> 
> ============================================================
> Subject:
>        Returned mail: User unknown
>    Date:
>        Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:16:49 GMT
>    From:
>        Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@nina.ae.krakow.pl>
>     To:
>        root@nina.ae.krakow.pl
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The original message was received at Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:16:48 GMT
> from root@localhost
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
> miderm  (unrecoverable error)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 miderm... User unknown
> 
>    ----- Message header follows -----
> 
> 
>  Subject:
>        Nvi saved the file marta1.xyz
>    Date:
>        Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:16:48 GMT
>    From:
>        root (Nvi recovery program)
>     To:
>        miderm

It looks like your deleted users did edit file with vi when a
catastrophe happened and all vi programs crashed. (maybe because
of a reboot during editing. Every time you boot, the /etc/rc script
tries to send a message to the user telling him that he can recover
from the desaster. To get rid of these messages clean the directory
/var/tmp/vi.recover.

> 
>    ----- Message body suppressed -----
> 
> ===================================================
> How to stop getting  letters?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I get daily run output report once a day, too. In it there is the
> following
> sequence:
> 
> ***============
> mail:
>                 Mail Queue (1 request)
> --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
> ------------Sender/Recipient------------
> CAA05173* (no control file)
> ***============
> How to delete this request ?

delete this file in /var/spool/mqueue.

Wolfgang



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